Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

It moves over.

Another tile immediately comes up and docks.

They're going to move out, and they will build a spiral like the reverse of peeling an orange.

And it's not going to be as complicated as 32 tiles that form a soccer ball floating around in a big orb.

Which is what I did for my PhD to prove the harder problem of how could you do a big, messy, stochastic system, semi-random system.

We're just going to, for the company, do very pragmatic, connected scale-ups.

Yes, yes, or Lego.

Magnetiles.

I've been told that my generation was Lego, so I always say Legos with magnets, but apparently magnet tiles are the new thing for kids now, which are basically flat panels with magnets on their edges.

So I wish I had come up with that toy.

I live now in New York City.

I did.

I came when I was a Girl Scout in 2002 or 2003 to do a museum overnight, so we slept in your planetarium.

Right outside.

Yeah, right outside under the whale.

But we basically got to do a tour of the planetarium.

And that is what started my obsession with space.

So it's kind of crazy to get to come back.

Yeah.

Where it all began.

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